The IMT Sentinel
Match18 Jan 2027
IMT sink to position 14
24 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Age has not caught Farid Boulaya yet — 7.88
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.88 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at IMT
Ognjen Čančarević was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Manuel Díaz falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match16 Jan 2027
IMT get the job done against Novi Pazar
A 2‑0 win over Novi Pazar, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Filip Nović gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Nothing got past Ibrahima Kébé
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
One of those days for Stefan Šapić
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.23, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market18 Jan 2027
A long bet from IMT on Luís Fernandes
He is 20, and nobody at IMT signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
In brief
- Squad IMT pick somebody else ahead of Vladimir Radočaj
- Market Edgar Villavicencio joins IMT to strengthen the squad
- Player ratings Sankara Karamoko runs at them all day